racketeering

noun

racketeering

noun

Etymology Coined by the Employers' Association of Chicago in June 1927 in a statement about the influence of organized crime in the Teamsters union.

1

Usually The criminal action of being involved in a racket; especially, directing it.

Derived terms
antiracketeering

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